Harness-buckle.



No. 628,718. Patented July l|,|8 99. LMANES.

HARNESS BUCKLE.

(Application filed Apr. 17, 1899.)

(No Model.)

Warren dramas 'Pamnn'r @rrrcm EPI'IRAIM MANES, OF OHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO THE MGGREGOR & MOCORD MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

HARNESS-BUCKLE.

srncr'rrca'rron forming part of Letters Eatent No. 628,718, dated July 11, 1899.

Application filed April 17, 1899. Serial No. 713,359. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM MANEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and" useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do here construct and arrange the buckle that when it is in service its connections at both ends shall act directly upon the buckle-tongue to hold it closed.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming abuckle hereinafter more fullydescribed, and particularlypointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure I is a longitudinal section, and Fig. II is a face view, of a buckle according to my invention.

The particular buckle shown in the drawings is used in connection with or as a part of a harness, as a trace-buckle.

3 represents the side bars, 4 and 5 the end bars, and 6 a series of outside shields to do the service of the usual box-loop, all integral, as the frame of the buckle.

7 represents the tongue, which is pivoted to turn upon the end bar 4, and it rests its free end 8 upon the end bar 5 when in service. The tongue is shaped in loop form at 9 to receive an eye, technically called the logger head, of the hames or the strap end by which the buckle is permanently hung. In attaching the buckle the eye of the loggerhead or strap end is to be pushed up against the free end 8 of the tongue until the tongue is raised from the cross-bar 5 high enough to admit the end of the tongue into the said eye or into a hole in the said strap end. Then the eye or strap end is to be passed along the tongue until the buckle hangs by the loop 9 in the said eye held by this buckle is to be passed up through the frame and be secured by the free end 8 of the buckle in the usual manner. Then the end of the tug may be inserted beneath the shields 6, and should the trace end be too long to lie wholly beneath the shields it may project out over the end bar 4. It may now be seen that to pull upon the trace attached to the end 8 of the tongue will tend to hold the tongue closed, and to pull in the loop 9 will also tend to close the tongue, and in either case the same result will follow Whether the opposite end of the buckle be held by the tongue or frame, because the line of pull or draft both at the loop end and at the free end of the tongue is in a plane at that side of the pivot 4 opposite to the side of the end bar 5 of the body on which the end 8 of the tongue rests.

\Vhile I have shown it as a tug-buckle for harness, this buckle may be shaped and proportioned for almost every use to which a pivoted-tongue buckle is adapted, and so long as the loop 9 of the tongue is located at that side of the pivot 4 opposite to the restingpoint on the frame of the free end 8 the advantages stated above Will follow. I have described the frame and the pivotal cross-bar 4 as integral, and to attach the tongue to the said bar 4 the tongue is made with an opensided loop that is afterward to be closed around that bar, as shown by the joint-line 10. Yet this hole in the tongue might be made by drilling throughsoiid stock, and the crossbar 4 might be inserted through the side bars 3 and through the tongue to hold the parts together without departing from the spirit of my invention.

adapted to rest upon the other 'end bar on the buckle -fra1ne at which the pull upon the 16 same side thereof as the plane of the said buckle tends to close the tongue. cross-bars; the said tongue beingin loop form In testimony whereof I afflx my signature near its pivot and the loop being located on in presence of two Witnesses.

5' the opposite side of the plane of the end bars y to the location of the said cross-bars; substan- EPHRAIM MANES' tially as described, whereby both parts to be Witnessesi held connected by this buckle are located F. E. TYLER, when in service, Wholly at that side of the MANLIUS TAYLOR. 

